Close-up (CU) is a photographic technique which tightly frames a person or an object. In movies, it is applied to guide audience attention and to evoke audience emotion. In this paper, we detect face CU, object CU and lean ...

Due to its advantages of cost-effectiveness, on-demand provisioning and easy for sharing, cloud computing has grown in popularity with the research community for deploying scientific applications such as workflows. Although ...

In any organization there are some main goals and lots of projects for achieving these goals. For any organization, it is important to determine how much these projects affect on achieving the main goals. This paper proposes ...

This paper presents a framework supporting collaborative efforts between the designer and developer of software-intensive systems. The framework realizes a two-layered meta-tool concept: a powerful specification language ...

In service selection, an end user often has his or her personal preferences imposing on a candidate service's non-functional properties. For a service selection process promoted by a group of users, candidate services are ...

A Grid system is a promising solution for sharing distributed resources of registered participants to perform tasks whose demands may exceed the capacity of individual participating organization. However, the collaborative ...

This paper presents a novel approach to modeling a generic cognitive framework in game agents to provide tactical behavior generation as well as strategic decision making in modern multi-agent computer games. The core of ...

This paper presents a new approach for visualizing multiple relationships among collaborative objects in shared workspaces. Our new visualization provides users with a graphical user interface (GUI) for viewing, analyzing ...

This paper presents an approach to investigating interdisciplinary collaboration between an artist and a technologist based on case study methods. The aim of the research is to understand how artists and technologists ...

The paper presents a comparative study of mobile technology adoption and use by two communities - one Aboriginal and the other non-Aboriginal - both located in a remote region of Australia, the Bloomfield River Valley of ...

Mining time series data and imbalanced data are two of ten challenging problems in data mining research. Imbalanced time series classification (ITSC) involves these two challenging problems, which take place in many real ...

Mining time series data and imbalanced data are two of ten challenging problems in data mining research. Imbalanced time series classification (ITSC) involves these two challenging problems, which take place in many real ...

Graph edit distance (GED) is widely applied to similarity measurement of graphs in inexact graph matching. Due to the difficulty of defining cost functions reasonably, we do research oil two GED algorithms without cost ...

This paper investigates the use of psychoacoustic loudness analysis as a method for determining the likely emotional responses of listeners to musical excerpts. 19 excerpts of music were presented to 86 participants (7 ...

Several approaches have been proposed to support situational method engineering (SME), each of them providing different techniques and using different basic concepts. In this work, we propose a framework for comparing SME ...

Number plate is the unique identification of a vehicle. Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) is a system to capture the number plate of a moving vehicle and then to recognize it. Real-time recognition of number plate ...